windowsforms-538-controls-and-libraries-data-grid-visual-elements-grid-view-elements-filter-button.md
Filter buttons are displayed within column headers. Click the filter button to open the filter dropdown and specify a filter condition.
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Style
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Use the GridOptionsView.HeaderFilterButtonShowMode property to specify the display mode: smart tag or standard.
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Appearance
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Use ColumnFilterButton and ColumnFilterButtonActive to customize appearance settings of filter buttons.
Note
These appearance settings are not in effect if filter buttons are rendered as smart tags.
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Custom Draw Event
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Handle the GridView.CustomDrawColumnHeader event to manually draw column headers and their UI elements.
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Icon Settings
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To specify a custom filter button icon, create a custom Skin in the WinForms Skin Editor. The skin element that corresponds to the filter button is Smart Filter (located under Grid → Column Headers → Filtering ).
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Availability
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Use the View’s OptionsCustomization.AllowFilter or a column’s OptionsColumnFilter.AllowFilter property to control the availability of filter buttons for the entire View or for individual columns, respectively.
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